Sentences with phrase «of figures of authority»

He is disobedient, willful, at times deceitful (at least in front of figures of authority), and he carries a huge burden of anger in the face of the tragedy at the heart of his young life.

Not exact matches

Despite your position of power, forgetting that can undermine respect for you as an authority figure.

Fox: We deposit too much authority on the figure of the president.

In that series of experiments, fully two - thirds of experimental subjects — volunteers from various walks of life — demonstrated that they were willing to administer a lethal dose of electricity to a stranger, just because an authority figure in a white lab coat told them to.

The breakdown of perpetrators and victims are striking: 70 % of the bullies are men and 60 % of the targets are women, according to the survey, and 61 % of perpetrators are bosses or authority figures.

The revelations answer the question as to what the contents of the bottle he used to drink the liquid were full of, but authorities still haven't figured out how Praljak obtained the poison, or how he managed to smuggle it into the courtroom.

I was all sorts of problems for the authority figures in my life.

A ramp - up of iron ore exports has lifted annual throughput at Port Hedland to a new record of 460.4 million tonnes, with the combined Pilbara Ports Authority tracking for a figure of 633.5 mt per year.

The nutcrackers were caricatures of authority figures and became popular in Germany's famed Christmas markets.

The latest figures on the coral death from recent bleaching events are also higher than predicted, with further coral decline expected in 2017, according to Russell Reichelt, Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

Family members, authority figures, or executives who want to appear to care about the opinion of another person, but really want their instructions carried out without discussion, often favor tag questions.

According to figures from the Financial Conduct Authority, released by the House of Commons» Treasury Select Committee in September, 5,476 UK firms have at least one passport that allows them to do business in other EU and European Economic Area nations.

Neil Howe: A renowned authority on generations — who they are, and how they are shaping America's future — Howe is best known for his 1997 book The Fourth Turning, in which he predicted the generational strife playing out today and the emergence of a Trump - like figure.

The value of cryptocurrencies are not fixed by any institution or authority figure.

After all, it's an authority figure discussing your product and what they think of it.

We created Crypto Influencer to connect our ICO clients with authority figures within the world of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.

Unfortunately, many of us have already been conditioned to accept these proclamations as fact without even conducting any independent research on our own to (1) determine if the authoritative figure is even an authority on the topic, which in many cases, he or she is not; and (2) determine if what the authoritative figure is stating is actually true or not.

What the authorities admitted holding as of last summer was almost unbelievably small compared to what even the official figures streaming through Hong Kong alone, plus domestic production add to the total, and China is now the number one global gold producer.

Barclays Bank will need to figure out how the actions of its chief executive, James E. Staley, will affect its culture as it deals with the revelation last week that the British authorities are investigating him for trying to unmask the identity of an anonymous whistle - blower.

Presumably some sort of authority figure told you that you needed to do so.

Like a beaten puppy, you may find yourself afraid of God because you assume He is just like the other authority figures in your life.

Statistics have for decades shown that children are far, far, far, far more likely to be abused by a family member or by a school authority figure than they are by a member of the clergy of any religion.

Orthodox priests serve as guides along the path of life — and are not viewed as authority figures who are meant to be «holier than thou».

Her take on it is the one that most of the authority figures in Christendom don't want to hear.

All of the authority figures in our lives endorse religious views.

I've had a couple of traumatic, triggering experiences this week which have had me thinking again about just how much I struggle against institutions, so - called authority figures, and what I perceive to be (or are) obnoxious agents trying to exert «control» over my freedom of expression and thought and behaviors.

A kind of friendship may be had between an authority figure and a subordinate, but not the mutual closeness and intimate, reciprocal trust that people call «best friendship.»

In fact, they converted to our point of view because they accepted us as the new authority figures.

It seems that all of the leaders and figures of authority have hidden child abuse.

The alcoholic's inferiority is reduced not by identifying with a powerful authority - figure, but by becoming aware of his «higher and diviner self» which is his most real self.

They search for new forms of community but tend to be wary of authority figures and particularly of leaders... The young neotraditionalists also have an almost intuitive attraction to liturgy, ritual, and symbol as forms of knowledge that complement the dominant rational, scientific one.»

Well - meaning authority figures often removed their agency, their mobility, their independence, isolating them and then shackling them into dependence on the good will of the men in their life.

Male and female co-leaders provide opportunities for growth in relation to authority — figures of both sexes.

The Gospel presents the figure of the Christ as the expression of a non-coercive love which draws the world in its freedom toward a finer community of being.49 As Whitehead envisions the Christian message, Christ taught, lived, and died with the authority of a supreme ideal.

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

Such was the case with the former neo-Nazi leader Ingo Hasselbach, who reports that the East German National Socialist skinhead movement was born of disaffected but essentially apolitical youths who discovered Nazism only when the state and other hated authority figures labeled them as «neo-Nazis.»

By citing the authority of both passages, the Second Vatican Council sought to affirm universality and particularity simultaneously and to ground both of them in the figure of Jesus.

Some of these come from the unhealthy ways that other authority figures, like parents or teachers, may have related to us, rather than from the ways that God actually relates to people.

there are several flaws in that — not the least of which is the definition of a pastor as an «authority» figure in a premodern / modern western context.

And if people's earliest experiences of authority figures is that they're not trustworthy, that they're frightening, then it's hard for them to believe that God is trustworthy.

because we have been trained to be distrusting of «authority» figures who aren't better than us.

Our ideas of God often come from when we were little, and they are associated with authority figures.

Furthermore what you've already quoted above over and over again is that Lenin and later Stalin were two such communists who enforced atheism to consolidate power, the specific targeting of religious folks was so they can bring the proletariat to them rather than let the masses have a separate authority figure.

The crowd seems aware of some sort of impending crisis; the disciples are bewildered but following along; the authorities are prepared to strike at any moment; and in the midst of it all is a solitary, determined, and no doubt sorrowful, figure determined to press through to the end.

@Nancy, the truth you speak of is only what your pastor, priest, or whichever other male figure of authority in your sect tells you what it is.

It is to live with a constant barrage of mixed messages, from both male and female authority figures, about the role of women in society.

Citing figures by the Financial Conduct Authority which show 40 per cent of UK adults have less than # 100 in savings, Just Finance says problems with managing finance are becoming «a mainstream issue».

Considering he's 89, how many kids could be sent to college, etc. with the money spent on finding a low - level of authority figure?

Next there appeared in the same attitude a figure of great age and dignity, whose wonderful air of authority marked him as a man of the utmost distinction.

I figured out that since he was an authority in the church and at a respected university, but didn't follow the basic tenets of the church, why would I respect him or any other authority?